3+8 Mr. N E A L'S II' Vol. of f the be to make Inveéfives ; we are confident the 5 World will accufe us of too much Mildness, and ' all our good Subjeas will think that we are not ' well dealt with, and will judge of us, and of their own Happinefs and Security in us, by our ' Adtions ; which we defire may no longer profper, ' or have a Bleffing from God upon them and us, than they íhall be dire6ted to the Glory of God, ' in the Maintenance of the true Proteflant Profef- ' fion, to the Prefervation of the Property and the Liberty of the Subje&, in the Obfervation of the Laws, and to the Maintenance of the Rights and Freedom of Parliament, in the Allowance and Protedfion of all their juit Privileges.' Neal, p. 562. On the 2d cf June, the Parliament prefented the King with the Sum of all their Defires, for the Reformation and Security of Church and State, in Nineteen Propofitions, according to his Majefly's Commands in January lafl: And thefe were very remarkable ones ; andPhew plainly that nothing lets than the lodging the Sove- reign Power in their hands, would fatisfy them. By the third, they infift, that all the great Offi- ' ces in the Kingdom (hall be difpos'd of by the two I-lóufes ; by the 19th, they defire, that his ' Majefty would be gracioufly pleas'd to pafs á Bill for the reftraining of Peers made hereafter, from fitting and voting in Parliament, unlefs they ' be admitted thereunto, by the confent of the two Houfes of Parliament.' Neal, Ibid. 'Tis hard to exprefs his Majefly's Re- fentment againfi all thefe Propofitions, (except the two lafl) which he Pays, were fit only to be o.ffér'd to a vanquh'd Prifoner ; that he were unworthy ofhis noble Defeent, ifhefhould part with fuck Flowers of his Crown, as were worth all the refl of the Gar- land. His Majesty's Words, (which generally have the misfortune to be curtail'd by Mr. Neal, fo un- worthy
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